“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.”
— WEB
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“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.”
— WEB
“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.”
— KJV
“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.”
— ASV
We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. "Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be." It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was designed to make the people sensible how happy they were under his administration and how careful they should be to improve the advantages of it, and withal to direct them to look for the kingdom of Christ, and the times of reformation which that kingdom should introduce. It is here promised and prescribed, for the comfort of the church, I. That magistrates should do their duty in their places, and the powers answer the great ends for which they were ordained of God, Isa 32:1, Isa 32:2. 1. There shall be a king and princes that shall reign and rule; for it cannot go well when there is no king in Israel. The princes must have a king, a monarch over them as supreme, in whom they may unite; and the king must have princes under him as officers, by whom he may act, Pe1 2:13, Pe1 2:14. They both shall know their place and fill it up.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)
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